Word: sid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fundamentalists believe that Noah's Ark landed on Mount Ararat in 2105 B. C. Chinese believe that their diplomatic history was then beginning under the H'sid dynasty...
...four of the eight meets preceding. Yale-Harvard was doubly pleased to win the ninth. Of the twelve events, Oxford-Cambridge took first place in only four - 120-yard high hurdle, 880-yard run, running broad jump, running high jump. Big stars were two Yale men, long Sid Kieselhorst, little Charlie Engle, each with two firsts. Worried were the Britishers as they left Cambridge, Mass., afterward to prepare for a meet the next Saturday with Princeton-Cornell, at Travers Island. Westchester Co., N. Y. A loss would be their first against the Princeton-Cornell combination...
Douglas Fairbanks plays a game of his own invention called "Goose." Among his constant victims is Sid Grauman, Hollywood theatre owner. Last week when Mr. & Mrs. Fairbanks (Mary Pickford) left Hollywood for Manhattan, Jokester Grauman hired Jo-Jo, a trained cinema goose whose accomplishments are worth $25 a day; dressed him fastidiously, left him in the Fairbanks stateroom with a message wishing the couple "a goose of a good time." Jo-Jo was not returned before train time. His owner grew worried, threatened to sue Jokester Grauman for $2,500. Jokester Grauman, flustered, wired Mr. Fairbanks at Albuquerque...
...said that some of the great inhabitants have tired of the super-splendor of these evenings and stay sternly at home. But even they could not be entirely unconscious of an opening at Sid Grauman's famed Chinese Theatre last fortnight. Mr. Grauman, conspiring with the Warner Brothers, whose picture he was showing, studded the hills with searchlights. Red, green, and yellow, they scanned the sky by scores. For miles and miles they traced the night with tidings that something stupendous was in progress. That something...
McLarnin-McGraw. James McLarnin, lightweight who has a cherub's face and wears a harp on his bathrobe, who knocked out Sid Terris with one punch but who couldn't lay a glove on Champion Samuel Mandell, feinted with his left last week in Madison Square Garden, then crossed his right to the retreating but tough chin of Phillip McGraw, lightweight from Marathon, Greece, knocking him through the ropes into the lap of one of the judges. McGraw climbed back, was knocked down three times more, after which, amid cries of "Stop it," Referee Dorman lifted Mc-Larnin...